Richard Bausch

I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most…

— Richard Bausch

To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down,…

— Richard Bausch

Mostly you write to find out what you have to say.

— Richard Bausch

In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can…

— Richard Bausch

“To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down,…

— Richard Bausch

When you reach a place where you feel blocked, lower your standards and keep on going. There is no possible way to…

— Richard Bausch

Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages,…

— Richard Bausch

The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all…

— Richard Bausch

“My mother used to say, when the time is right, you don't need to have a committee meeting about it.”

— Richard Bausch

I love teaching. If I made a trillion dollars, I would still teach. It's different every day. You get to meet intelligent…

— Richard Bausch

“He turned in a small circle and looked at the grass, the rocks, the river, the raining sky with its tatters and…

— Richard Bausch

Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also…

— Richard Bausch

Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.

— Richard Bausch

I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good,…

— Richard Bausch

Write a little bit every day, each day. Visit it, every day - in other words, show up for work.

— Richard Bausch

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

— Richard Bausch

Read the writers whose work is still around and has survived the winds of fashion and the attacks of the ignorant and…

— Richard Bausch